Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later from Udupi, Karnataka: Rohith Bhat’s Exhilarating Journey with Robosoft (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: These were projects that Apple gave you to build these apps? Rohith Bhat: We had customers of our own. We built it for them. Apple gave us the SDK. Sramana Mitra: This was very early. My question is how did you find clients to build products for the Apple App Store? Rohith Bhat:

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Catching Up On Readings: Global IPO Trends: Q3 2017

According to this EY report titled Global IPO trends: Q3 2017, Asia-Pacific led in IPO activity this year, with 72% increase in IPOs to 690 exchanges since 2016. China, Hong Kong, and Australia were the high performers in the region. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later from Udupi, Karnataka: Rohith Bhat’s Exhilarating Journey with Robosoft (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What kind of revenue levels were you operating at? Rohith Bhat: We were still at a million dollars. Sramana Mitra: You were steady at a million dollars from 1998 to about 2002. Rohith Bhat: In 1998, we were much smaller. By 2002 to 2003, we hit a million dollars in revenue. We were steady

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later from Udupi, Karnataka: Rohith Bhat’s Exhilarating Journey with Robosoft (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Chronologically, we are in the 1996 to 1997 timeframe? Rohith Bhat: Yes. From 1996 to 1998, we worked for, at least, five to six companies. I have not met any of these folks from the United States. I was in Bombay. Getting talent for my startup was now becoming a little bit difficult

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8 Founder Podcasts Discuss Building Startups in Europe

Last year I wrote about The Next European Renaissance, in which we explore whether Europe’s recognized enthusiasm for culture in its various forms – food, music, architecture, literature, and many more – and greater commitment to the preservation and promotion of such expressions of culture would offer a good platform for generating new and important

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November 9 – 375th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 375th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, November 9, 2017, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register

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374th Roundtable Recording On November 2, 2017: With Jon Staenberg, Staenberg Venture Partners

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 374th Roundtable Recording On Nov. 2, 2017: With Jon Staenberg, Staenberg Venture Partners

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Cognitive Scale CEO Akshay Sabhikhi (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Your strategy is to look at the universe as three layers where you have IBM, Azure, or Google underneath. You insert yourself as a middleware. Then you want the domain knowledge of clients where you either code into or the client themselves code that, or there may be verticalized solution providers on top

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